Covid-19 could be a seasonal illness with a higher risk in winter as researchers have found a one per cent decrease in humidity could increase the number of Covid-19 cases by six per cent.
The study, published in the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, has found an association between lower humidity and an increase in locally acquired positive cases. "Covid-19 is likely to be a seasonal disease that recurs in periods of lower humidity.
We need to be thinking if it's wintertime, it could be Covid-19 time," said study author Michael Ward, Professor at the University of Sydney in Australia.
According to the researchers, further studies - including during winter in the southern hemisphere - are needed to determine how this